29 Jan
2014
29 Jan
'14
3:19 p.m.
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Bill Vodall wrote:
I don't think anybody is promoting BGP to the exclusion of other routing
protocols on net-44. We should be expanding the routing flexibility to
accomodate multiple protocols/technologies, further experimentation, and
allow utilization of additional volunteers whose expertise goes beyond
just static routing and RIP.
Really? Are you saying amateur RF is synonymous with low bandwidth?
Have you looked at HSMM lately?
Replying to John a bit out of order...
You can
multi-home BGP networks for higher reliability. It all depends on
how the network is engineered. This is a volunteer effort, with
distributed network design and management.
Part of engineering is considering the 'volunteers' available.
Designing a system where only a select few can play (BGP routing) is
less HAM oriented, UM!HO, than a basement computer system where
anybody and everybody can participate. However, I
think a truly useful network of Amateur Radio related
technologies is better served via high bandwidth infrastructure (99.99% of
the time). Ingenuity takes over for the rest (0.01%).
That high bandwidth infrastructure is generally not 'amateur RF' so
keep it simple and on the stock Internet technologies and no need for
any additional routing magic. It's all pretty much moot given the lack of a use
case for either the
BGP High speed or basement lower speed systems. I'm still dreaming of
a HAM Radio variant of Facebook...
BGP is not synonymous with high-speed any more than basement is synonymous
with low-speed.
Antonio Querubin
e-mail: tony(a)lavanauts.org
xmpp: antonioquerubin(a)gmail.com